I highly recommend anyone who cares about tech's impact on society read this! It's fairly short, and doesn't rely on understanding highly technical jargon. This is my favorite part:

Unlike 20th century propaganda, #platformrealism is not an aesthetic of seduction, but of brutal carelessness and blatant ignorance. The power of a video like this lies in the sloppiness of its means - anyone could produce it, without expertise, without investment, without even watching it
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🧵 Il piano di Trump per Gaza si chiama pulizia etnica | @invisiblearabs.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/piano-trump-... via @valigiablu.it

Fantastic roundup of the Musk coup by @mmasnick.bsky.social; Musk's unappointed cronies have infiltrated more of the federal government than I'd heard.

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...

Questo è molto interessante e dev'esserlo per chi non è a conoscenza dei rapporti tra Kigali e Tel Aviv, ma soprattutto per chi non sa che ruolo ha #Israele in #DRCongo per ciò che riguarda il traffico di diamanti. Un 🧵

Layers of information in an archival document:

- What is said
- What is not said
- What is alluded to
- What is omitted intentionally
(and unintentionally)
- What is misleading
- What is ambiguous
- What is highlighted
- What is downplayed
- What is weaponized
- What is unintelligible today
...

La crisi idrica in Basilicata, tra cambio climatico, emergenza e privatizzazione
un articolo di Mimmo Nardozza
disegno di vinylico
napolimonitor.it/la-crisi-idr...

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/